CHINA: Airport in Middle

How should a new capital city for a country of 400 million people be built? What should it include?

1) It should cover 100 square miles to give elbow room to its two million inhabitants.

2) No house should be more than three stories high, not for fear of earthquakes, but to avoid such traffic congestion as is found in U. S. cities.

3) It should be designed around a monumental group of Government buildings.

4) Because of the importance of air transportation in a sprawling, railway-poor country like China, there should be a model...

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